Deoxygenated Quotes & Sayings

When a human's tears finally dry up forever, they transform into a monster. — Kohta Hirano

Knowledge is light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Mortality is like the cold. It cannot be altered by human conceit or solidarity, and at the end you will be on your knees, in shock and amazement, and then you'll have only one sword, one shield, one great thing to carry you through." Alessandro waited to hear what that was, but his father would not say. "If you don't discover it yourself, it will be nothing more than an exhortation from me. — Mark Helprin

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed. — Auberon Herbert

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form — John Grierson

He spoke Spanish, English, Italian, and just enough of every other language to be able to charm women around the world. — Lynsey Addario

This year there will be an eclipse of the Moon on the fourth day of August.9 Saturn will be retrograde; Venus, direct; Mercury, variable. And a mass of other planets will not proceed as they used to.10 As a result, crabs this year will walk sideways, rope-makers work backwards, stools end up on benches, and pillows be found at the foot of the bed;11 many men's bollocks will hang down for lack of a game-bag;12 the belly will go in front and the bum be the first to sit down; nobody will find the bean in their Twelfth Night cake; not one ace will turn up in a flush; the dice will never do what you want, however much you may flatter them;13 and the beasts will talk in sundry places. — Francois Rabelais

What I really want is someone who will wake me up early so I don't miss a sunrise. — Jenna Evans Welch

The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front. — Douglas Adams

Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off as you've always dreamed, yet you don't have the first notion of how to make it start, much less how to make it move. — Andrew Sean Greer

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves. — Julia Cameron

Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity. — Toba Beta